iPod question

afx237vi
afx237vi Posts: 12,630
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
Is there any way to load to music onto an iPod Nano without installing iTunes?

Comments

  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/art ... out_itunes
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    That'd be a yes then.

    Will it also allow you to get software off your Ipod that wasn't, ahem, necessarilly loaded from your i-tunes session?

    Bob
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    beverick wrote:
    That'd be a yes then.

    Will it also allow you to get software off your Ipod that wasn't, ahem, necessarilly loaded from your i-tunes session?

    Bob
    There are lots. Check macupdate.com if you have a Mac. Music files are just flagged as invisible, so any utility that reveals invisible files makes it possible. Various programs just automate the process, and provide a drag-and-drop UI.

    Edit: EG iRip

    http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    balthazar wrote:
    beverick wrote:
    That'd be a yes then.

    Will it also allow you to get software off your Ipod that wasn't, ahem, necessarilly loaded from your i-tunes session?

    Bob
    There are lots. Check macupdate.com if you have a Mac. Music files are just flagged as invisible, so any utility that reveals invisible files makes it possible. Various programs just automate the process, and provide a drag-and-drop UI.

    Unfortunately the only MAC I have keeps the rain off.....

    Still, MS will catch up with them some day. I even notice that Windows 7 now has some of the functionality MAC-OS had in the 90's!

    Looks like a job for Google.

    Bob

    Bob
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    and then what happens when you do connect the iPod/iPhone up to iTunes and sync?

    Does it get rid of any tracks which weren't loaded using iTunes - the same way it does if you connect the same iPod up to two different machines with different iTunes programs?
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    hammerite wrote:
    and then what happens when you do connect the iPod/iPhone up to iTunes and sync?

    Does it get rid of any tracks which weren't loaded using iTunes - the same way it does if you connect the same iPod up to two different machines with different iTunes programs?

    Turn the synch off.

    Bob
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    beverick wrote:
    Unfortunately the only MAC I have keeps the rain off.....

    Still, MS will catch up with them some day. I even notice that Windows 7 now has some of the functionality MAC-OS had in the 90's!

    Looks like a job for Google.

    Bob

    Bob
    Looks like iRip have a version for Windows as well as Mac (not MAC!) :wink:
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    beverick wrote:
    hammerite wrote:
    and then what happens when you do connect the iPod/iPhone up to iTunes and sync?

    Does it get rid of any tracks which weren't loaded using iTunes - the same way it does if you connect the same iPod up to two different machines with different iTunes programs?

    Turn the synch off.

    Bob

    Thanks Bob, can you force a firmware upgrade without a sync? or install a new app without sync?

    Sorry if these are numpty questions!
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Hammerite—

    You just have to turn off the automatic population of the iPod with music. How to do this varies with the iPod; I guess you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, in which case, you configure it under the "Music" tab, that appears when you plug the iPod in:

    itunes.png

    Choose "Selected etc", instead of "Entire music library". You can still update the OS, Apps, and anything else (general Sync) as you like.
  • afx237vi
    afx237vi Posts: 12,630
    I was actually looking for a way to do it without installing any software.. but evidently that's a no. Never mind.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    balthazar wrote:
    Hammerite—

    You just have to turn off the automatic population of the iPod with music. How to do this varies with the iPod; I guess you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, in which case, you configure it under the "Music" tab, that appears when you plug the iPod in:

    itunes.png

    Choose "Selected etc", instead of "Entire music library". You can still update the OS, Apps, and anything else (general Sync) as you like.

    Thanks Balthazar. I have an iPhone, and an iPod classic. The phone is for work, so I have it set up to iTunes on my work laptop - but all my music is on my PC at home. It's been a bit of a pain transferring music over to the laptop from the PC just so I can have some music on the phone!

    I don't use the iPod classic to listen to music on the go, it's used for my hifi. It's all reasonably new for me though!
  • balthazar
    balthazar Posts: 1,565
    Hammerite— in your case, I think a 3rd Party app (ie. iRip) may be just what you need, to get music onto your work phone. Apart from that, my method for managing multiple iPods with one computer is to have a playlist in iTunes dedicated to each one; each iPod is then set to sync to its playlist. That way, I can change the playlists any time, and just apdate the changes when I sync.

    afx237vi— if you have a utility that can reveal invisible files, then you can deal with songs manually. You can do that in the native Mac Finder with a little cunning, I'm sure there's a way in Windows.
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    Thanks Balthazar.

Categories